With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Storytelling wise, you've gotta take it as far as you can possibly take it with each individual movie. If you're holding out… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
I feel like people want to be surprised when they get out of the movies. They want something thrown at them they… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
For me, I was entirely focused on 'Episode VIII' and having this experience, and now I'm just thinking of putting the movie… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
'Star Wars' was everything for me. As a little kid, you get to see the movies only once or twice, but playing… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
It's so much work to make a movie, and for me it has to get me off my butt. To get me… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
When I see a news story on a site, about a movie that I'm interested in, it's like the mouse going for… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
It was so emotional to step onto the Millennium Falcon set because that was the play set we all had when we were kids.… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Then I saw it. I saw a mom who would die for her son. A man who would kill for his wife. A boy,… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small and keep… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Storytelling wise, you've gotta take it as far as you can possibly take it with each individual movie. If you're holding out something for… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel I learned… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
It took a while before I could sit across the table with Mark and not, every three seconds, think, 'I'm talking to Luke Skywalker.' — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
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